As another year passes…its time to reflect how quickly it’s gone by. I reckon time passes quicker 1) as you’re getting older, and 2) if you’re an athlete.
As you’re getting older, the percent that time accounts for in your life is less and less, that’s why it passes (or seems to pass) quicker. For example, 1 min when you are 5 yrs old, is a far larger percentage of your life than 1 min when you are 50 years old…thus the perception of that time gets less and less as you get older, and therefore passes quicker.
If you’re an athlete, everything is gauged in units of time thus you’re mind breaks down every aspect of time in the way. Generally when you are training and/or racing, you want time to pass quickly because of the pain that you are in…when you spend a lot of your life breaking down time like this, it sure as hell passes quickly in every area of your life!
“how long til the next interval? How much recovery time until I begin again? When’s the next race”
Everything is focused on the future…
Hows about we try and stay with the present more?
